• Question: What will happen to the earth if there is a lot of pollution and all humans die?

    Asked by Nora900 to Sian, Max on 6 Mar 2018.
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      Max Jamilly answered on 6 Mar 2018:


      That’s an interesting question! First of all, I should say that pollution is a very big problem, and so are its long-term effects like loss of clean water or global warming.

      The strange thing is, the earth is a lot stronger than humans are. Even if there was a BIG disaster and most (or all) humans died – even if we went extinct as a species – the earth would probably be fine. It’s an incredibly ‘stable’ system (which means that if you change it, it eventually goes back to how it was before).

      So after a few million years without humans, the earth could look quite similar to how it did before we existed!

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